NoSQL isn't the default storage option. It is a storage option. NoSQL means this: "Hold your horses, are you sure SQL is the right option for storing that? The

NoSQL isn't the default storage option. It is a storage option. NoSQL means this: "Hold your horses, are you sure SQL is the right option for storing that? There are other options." In any debate, extremist views will tend to get heard as much, or probably even more, than the rational ones, but the concept didn't start out irrational, it started out the way I just described it. Then came the nutbags who claim that either SQL never ever scales, or that SQL is in fact the only way to store anything at all in the real world and that it fits every use case in the known universe, perfectly.